The Most Brutal Things Kids Have Said To Medical Staff
It all started when a family nurse practitioner called Liz shared the ways in which her youngest patients had “roasted” her.
“I’ve found children do not hold back even a little,” said the nurse in the caption for her Instagram reel, where she shared some of the harsher statements kids had come out with during her time at work.
“I started writing down their feedback so I could share their wisdom with ALL of my friends.” And their wisdom is certainly something.
“We were discussing how tall they were,” said Liz, adding a child then bluntly told her: “I hope I never be as tall as you. It’s bad.”
“Are you sick – or just old?” was another cutting question from a young patient.
One child asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up, to which she replied: “Well, I guess I am grown up – and I’m this...” She said the child then commented: “Oh, well you tried your best.”
The nurse practitioner said she’s also received feedback on her hair – specifically, that it’s “not good” – and her “crooked” teeth.
Humbling.
She then asked her followers, many of whom are medical professionals, to share how children had roasted them recently, and let’s just say I’m glad I’m not a doctor...
1. “Paediatric anaesthesiologist here. I was making conversation with a five year old to make him comfortable before I induced and he rolled his eyes and said ‘just stop talking and put me to sleep’.”
2. “Kid: looking at my badge pic in which I wore makeup and brushed my hair, ‘who’s that?’. Me: ‘it’s me.’ Kid: confused, looking from badge to me… ‘what happened?’”
3. “My husband is a med student and bald. On his paediatric rotation, a kid looked up to him and said ‘my grandma has cancer too.’”
4. “I asked a kid in the paediatric ER what colour her poop was and she said ‘I dunno, I guess the same colour as your hair.’”
5. “One patient told my collaborating physician that his breath smelled like fish. But then told him it was ok and gave him a hug.”
6. “A nurse with spiky blonde hair came into my nephew’s hospital room (he has CF), and he told her, ‘Your head looks like a chicken.’ He was 3 at the time.”
7. “I was doing a well check on a 5 year old and she asked me, ‘Why are your teeth so yellow and your hair so black?’”
8. “My daughter told the bald paramedic his head looked like an egg that fell out of a carton. I was mortified but he just laughed.”
9. “A patient drew a picture of me. With a donut. When I asked they said, ‘You look like you like donuts.’”
*Some responses have been lightly edited.